This course will examine the history of literary theory and criticism from its classical beginnings until after the Second World War. Each week we will examine a particular period, style, or group of critics, looking not only for what makes each type of criticism unique (it’s strengths and weaknesses) but how each successive group builds on the previous to develop new ideas and arguments. Because this is a graduate class you will do much of this work yourself through both presentation and individual writing which will then lead to larger discussions in the classroom with your peers.

The content of the course involves key issues in SLA, theories of SLA, Theories of SLA (The Universal Grammar Approach, Cognitive Approaches to SLA, the perceptual saliency approach, Connectionism, - Information Processing Approach). Specifically, the course focess on issues such as Input processing, Input and Interaction, instructed SLA: Focus-on-form vs. Focus-on-meaning, and instructed SLA: The role of feedback.

ING535

COMPERATIVE LITERATURECOMPERATIVE LITERATURE

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This course will form a pathway of the Theory course that is dedicated to exploring approaches to comparative literature. The seminars will bring teaching staff and graduates with expertise in different literatures together, providing an opportunity to engage in debate on theoretical and methodological questions that will be central to your graduate work. Topics addressed will be: National literatures - World literature?; The Ancients and the Moderns - the Role of the Canon; Translation, Adaptation, Version; Place and Displacement.

This course will form a pathway of the Theory course that is dedicated to exploring approaches to comparative literature. The seminars will bring teaching staff and graduates with expertise in different literatures together, providing an opportunity to engage in debate on theoretical and methodological questions that will be central to your graduate work. Topics addressed will be: National literatures - World literature?; The Ancients and the Moderns - the Role of the Canon; Translation, Adaptation, Version; Place and Displacement.

Each week we will meet to discuss an issue in writing and research, reading or listening to lectures on the subject at hand. You will then meet both individually and as a group to discuss your projects over the course of the term. The course will conclude with you submitting your project for review. This course is very much self-directed: the research and writing you do is on your own and thus, the grade you receive will be based on work you do outside of the classroom.

This course aims to introduce basic concepts and theories in Psycholinguistics and make students familiar with experimental research methods used in sentence processing. The focus will be memory, and sentence processing in the first language and second language.

ING558

SPECIAL STUDIES IN ENGLISH LITERATURE SPECIAL STUDIES IN ENGLISH LITERATURE

To think critically about the relationship of literature to issues of gender.
To analyze and question socially constructed notions of gender which influence the lives of real women and real men.
To grow as perceptive readers of literature through close reading of literary texts.
To present analyses of the assigned texts to the group, discussing those texts in class.
To work toward developing a classroom community, where each class member takes responsibility for the success of the learning enterprise.

AN INTRODUCTION TO WHAT DISCOURSE ANALYSIS IS
TO BUILD A SIGNIFICANT FOUNDATION IN THE FOLLOWING FIELDS:
LINGUISTICS
SOCIOLOGY
PSYCHOLOGY
ANTHROPOLOGY
AS WELL AS DESCRIPTIVE AND APPLIED LINGUISTICS
ANALYSING THE SPOKEN AND WRITTEN LANGUAGE

This course consists of the works of major Victorian poets and poet-critics, including Alfred Lord
Tennyson, Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Christina Rossetti and
Gerard Manley Hopkins, Hardy to consider various conceptions of the poet’s
position in or out of society and theorize the role of poetry. We will also reflect on the cultural context in which these verses were composed – with
particular emphasis on issues of gender and sexuality

The topics covered include the design of good performance tasks and rubrics; and the communication challenge involved in grading; varieties of assessment; project & portfolio assessment; designing classroom assessment tasks & scoring guides.

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TEACHING LANGUAGE IN CONTEXT TEACHING LANGUAGE IN CONTEXT

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The following main topics are covered: knowing a language theoretical perspectives of learning methodological issues of teaching the role of context different approaches to teaching listening, reading, speaking and writing research findings regarding the above mentioned areas will be discussed as well.

The following main topics are covered: knowing a langugae theoretical perspectives of learning methodological issues of teaching the role of context different approaches to teaching listening, reading, speaking and writing research findings regarding the above mentioned areas will be discussed as well

During the first two weeks of the course the Fantasy Literature theory is developed, while in the other weeks selected cult fantasy and science fiction works from different world literatures are being studied and discussed in the light of current developments.

The content covers the writing process, the writer as reader: reading and responding, the reader as writer: drafting and writing, forms of criticism: explication and analysis, other kinds of writing about literature, thinking critically about literature, thinking critically about literary forms and style, format, and special assignments.

ING657

RESEARCH ON SECOND LANGUAGE READINGRESEARCH ON SECOND LANGUAGE READING

Practice with timed reading passages followed by comprehension questions. Lessons in such skills as scanning and skimming that help students learn how to move their eyes quickly and purposefully over a text. Opportunities for large quantities of extensive reading.

This course covers study of both Language form and language function in spoken interaction and written texts. It identifies linguistic features and how they are used. It enables the students to analyze and see the changes in meaning according to the use of language in different situations. It also gives insight to language teachers on how to make use of discourse analysis in their classes.

This course will engage with literary modernism in America taking the expatiate movement known as the Lost Generation as its focus. We will discuss the culture of the 1910s and 1920s through the literature of the period, asking the question why a literary movement made up of Americans and English writers had to move to Paris to flourish. In essence, what was wrong with America? The validity of the memoir as both a cultural artefact and a historical text will also be discussed. In each class, or two classes for the novels, we will focus on the work(s) of the author or authors, asking ourselves how he, she, or they fit into the larger framework of early 20th century literature and culture.

To think critically about the relationship of literature to issues of gender.
To analyze and question socially constructed notions of gender which influence the lives of real women and real men.
To grow as perceptive readers of literature through close reading of literary texts.
To present analyses of the assigned texts to the group, discussing those texts in class.
To work toward developing a classroom community, where each class member takes responsibility for the success of the learning enterprise.

ING628

SPECIAL TOPICS IN SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITIONSPECIAL TOPICS IN SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION

This course aims to introduce language science, with a special focus on Psycholinguistic, Neurolinguistic approaches in second language acquisition (SLA), the methods and techniques used in the research in these fields.

Each week we will meet to discuss an issue in writing and research, reading or listening to lectures on the subject at hand. You will then meet both individually and as a group to discuss your projects over the course of the term. The course will conclude with you submitting your project for review. This course is very much self-directed: the research and writing you do is on your own and thus, the grade you receive will be based on work you do outside of the classroom.